Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 75mm finders
From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@euronet.be>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:15:54 +0200

Jeremy,

Yes, that is what I ended up doing. I saw a mint condition VIOOH finder this
morning at a shop here in Brussels and bought it. It is totally clean, really
beautiful and has framelines for 35, 50, 73, 90 and 135mm.

Nathan


jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk wrote:

> The easiest and perhaps cheapest way to solve this request is to get one
> of the old variable finders made by Leitz and frequently marked with the
> 73mm setting for the old Hektor lens. Unless you are perverse (and some
> of us are...) the 'right way round' version is the easier one to use,
> although HCB maintains that the 'drawing' and 'geometry' of a picture
> becomes more obvious when seen (through the other, older version) not the
> right way round...
>
> Jem